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By recommendation engine, I mean a web app where you tell it your favourite things, and it recommends other things that you might like, based on a corpus of data.

Apparently Netflix does this for movies (I don't know, I live outside the US).

I've used these in the past for:

movies

books

games

music

etc

...but it looks like they've all since disappeared (kindakarma, wikilens, a few others I think).

Can you save me (and future generations arriving here by google!) some hours of searching and recommend any good recommendation engine web apps?

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You might give Hunch a try. It asks you questions about what you like and gives you recommendations. Backed by fancy-schmancy machine learning algos and web-2.0-tastic team (like Caterina Fake, co-founder of Flickr), it may be an interesting option.

Colleagues from mine recently launched a new service called tagmantic, which as its core supports a tag2tag and tag2uri recommendation engine, if you want to give it a try (it is still in beta stage) at:

Take a look at GetGlue. It has some nice browser integration and is available in a lot of platforms. As far as I know it serves as a recommendation engine for everything you mentioned, and is reported to be growing a lot, which should mean that the quality of the recommendations should be high.

EDIT: I just stumbled upon this blog post with quite a big list of recommendation engine apps, organized by type.